The Dreadful and the Divine: A visual exploration of the surgical instrument

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Thursday, 23 September 2010 - Thursday, 23 December 2010
Tues-Sat 10am-5pm
Elaine Duigenan, a photographer who lives in Lamb's Conduit St, has an exhibition of photos of surgical instruments on at:
 
Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3PE

There is something fascinating about the tools which surgeons wield, they can invoke powerful associations: they inspire fear and awe, carry connotations of butchery as well as healing, and are synonymous with intricacy and skill – in manufacture as well as in use. They are the means to open the body and put it back together – instruments of a power simultaneously dreadful and divine.

Using photography, Artist in Residence Elaine Duigenan has explored instruments' contradictory status as the therapeutic extension of the surgeon's hands and as objects designed to destroy living tissue.  Drawing on the rich historical collections of the Hunterian Museum and bringing together the expertise of surgeons, historians and instrument manufacturers, her work reanimates the instrument as a thing of beauty and dread.

More informartion from the Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Museum website:

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